Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine interest in Lung Cancer - North East England, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Locum Consultant in Respiratory Medicine interest in Lung Cancer (Consultant) - Respiratory Medicine - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Tyne and Wear
This is a locum post which has arisen due to absence.

The appointee will be part of the dynamic Department of Respiratory Medicine based at the Cardiothoracic Centre alongside the Institute of Transplantation at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The objective of this post is to provide cover for respiratory consultant absence, by contributing to the existing work of the lung cancer team, including clinics and seeing new referrals, as well as contributing more widely to the respiratory work of the department, including seeing general referrals in clinic and providing cover to the respiratory ward on an attending Physician of the Week rota.

There are on calls for Freeman respiratory Medicine, approximately 1 in 8, with weekends on call also.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

To support the existing general respiratory and lung cancer service.
Contribute to the general adult respiratory in patient service.
Contribute to the Consultant on call rota for Respiratory Medicine.
Dr Andrew Stanton, Head of Respiratory Department, Ext 48365 or

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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country.

This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment.

We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients.

We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

This post will support the general respiratory and multi-disciplinary lung cancer service by:
Seeing new and review general respiratory medicine patients
Seeing new and review lung cancer patients in clinics.
Support the adult respiratory service with a commitment to flexibly arrange sessions as service demands change.
The appointee will have an equitable share in the attachment of junior medical staff and secretarial support.

The appointee will be expected to organise and ensure probity of their clinical practice and that of their supporting team so as to provide coordinated, quality care to patients in line with wider departmental objectives.

This would include, for example, providing timely responses to clinical and related correspondence, appropriate management of waiting lists, supervision and assessment of trainees.

The appointee may also be required to support colleagues or the clinical director in running aspects of the department from time to time.

This may include timely investigation of complaints – working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy.

Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Physicians
It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays
It is a condition of employment that so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:
-be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control
-include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development
-take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleague
The Trust supports requirements for continuing professional development as laid down by the Royal Colleges and is committed to providing support for these activities

We provide in-patient care on a 31 bedded respiratory ward which takes patients from the assessment unit of the Royal Victoria Infirmary as well as planned subspeciality admissions e.g.

bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension / transplant assessment. NIV provision is supported by specialist respiratory physiotherapists. The ward is supported by a trust grade registrar, and 3 IMT level doctors.

There is additional support, particularly with specialist liaison referrals from speciality trainees undertaking specific sub speciality training modules and numerous clinical nurse specialists.

We have excellent support from specialist thoracic radiologists (including interventional radiology), thoracic surgery and intensive care.
The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis is that studies should fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio.

The Respiratory Department at Freeman Hospital has a strong base in clinical and applied molecular biological research with dedicated facilities on site in the William Leech Centre at Freeman Hospital and laboratory facilities at the Medical School on the University Campus.

The Academic Respiratory Department has a prominent role within the Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University. Academic Respiratory Medicine is led by Professor John Simpson.

The grouping has 4 separate research laboratories (2 in the NUTRI, one in the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, plus the small satellite lab at Freeman Hospital).

The first of these is a shared, communal lab space incorporating 3 closely interactive respiratory groups, encouraging exchange of ideas and facilities.

The grouping has collective expertise in basic research, in vivo work, experimental medicine and large randomised controlled clinical trials.

A distinct strength in Newcastle is the research contribution made by full-time NHS consultants, complementing and extending the outputs of the academic appointments.

The broad academic interests of the grouping are described below (*indicates full-time NHS employees who lead clinical research).

There is an academic clinical fellowship programme in addition to clinical research fellows participating in research programmes based on lung transplantation, innate immunity, pulmonary vascular disease and sleep medicine.

There are clinical research fellows in post who also contribute to the on call rotas.
Prof John Simpson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine (NUTRI) – neutrophil/monocyte biology, ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Prof Andrew Fisher, Professor of Respiratory Transplant Medicine and Dean of Clinical Medicine – lung transplant.
Prof Tony De Soyza (Population and Health science Institute, PHSI)– bronchiectasis and COPD.
Dr Malcolm Brodlie (NUTRI) – cystic fibrosis and paediatric respiratory medicine.

Dr Chris Ward (Institute of Cell and Biomedical Science and NUTRI) – respiratory airway epithelial biology and the pulmonary effects of reflux.

The hospital is also a designated teaching centre for undergraduate medical students from Newcastle University. The appointee will be expected to attend and contribute at departmental meetings, administrative, audit, governance and academic teaching.

In line with the Trust's core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients.

To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend.

As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.

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